Be interesting to see if anyone else fancies jumping in again so quickly after the last one. Unfortunately, to use the Xmas theme, then it would really have to start within a week or so to have enough time to get it done with a six week deadline. Unless anyone fancies deadline day being Xmas day and coding up until midnight to submit their game in time :-)

5. Fireworks (7 days more to code than for xmas ;-)6. "Changes" (new years eve)7. Frost / Snow / Winter (time till ~end of january, so "mid-winter" in northern hemisphere)8. Code (we are a coder's forum - so why not have something "strange" keyword-like)

@ bmxYou can surely create a new thread about it - but I would not "piggyback" on the "official" compo. You could also allow other languages by exposing the canvas via "hooks/pixmap/texture" to DLL/a-files. Also you could expose stuff to LUA, means people could code in LUA. LUA + "own language wich creates a shared library" should be enough to allow various programmers to do their job. Then add compatibility to all the winamp-visualizers and there you go....

Yet I still want a competition with some "non arcade" games - people here like it and have more experience with it than me, so I never have a chance to reach #1 ;-)Simulation games, maybe even some "sports game" (am not a friend of it too, but same chances for all of us ...haha).One could even make the compo "short time framed" if you plan to have the compo behave as a "olympic compo game collection" thing. So all contestants just code a single sports variant (of course multiple "sub variants" are allowed - bob tournament for single, double, ... teams).That way we had a similar "theme" but with different "results" (some may want a "funny" sports competition, others add blood and gore by cheating alien sportsman ...). We could even add some "fun sports" (santa sleigh bob racing, elfen-glacier-cross-bow-matches, ...). Limiting on a specific "sport" allows to stay in the time frame. Of course it would be cool if there was some kind of "common accessible" highscore/profile system (that way people play all games with the same "player"). This part is absolutely optional as it required either a webservice+API or a DLL (as we talk about windows).

His sleigh can fly ... the same way he can move through chimneys with a belly wider than mine - and this also to homes with no chimney at all.

Now explain what's the difference to "Saint Niklaas" (Nikolaus, Knecht Ruprecht, ...) and "Santa". Then tell them that only in USA (or similar countries) that dude is eating cookies and milk. And hey - in Germany he comes on 24th of December ("Heiligabend" - christmas eve), not the day after.